| Abstract: | The purpose of this research is to reveal the relationship between the coach
leadership behavior awared by the athletes and the cohesiveness at senior high school
volleyball team in Taiwan. The subjects are athletes who participated in Leagues of
Taiwan Senior High School Volleyball Competition in 95th Academic Year.
The study adopted the survey method and proceeded to collect the data by using
the questionnaires of ??A Scale of Leadership Behavior and Team Cohesiveness
Inventory??. Descriptive statistics, T test, one-way ANOVA, Schaffer?s method and
stepwise regression were used to analyze the data collected, which resulted in several
conclusions as below:
1. The differences of senior high school volleyball athletes? background variables
would affect the perception of athletes to their coaches? leadership behavior, and
there existed significant difference in ?Sex?, ?Age?, ?Years to be the athlete?,
?Training frequency? and ?Performance?.
2. There is significant difference in team cohesiveness in different background
variables of senior high school volleyball athletes, which existed significant
difference in team coherence in ?Age?, ?Years to be the athlete?, ?Training
frequency ? and ?Performance?.
3. The relationship between the team cohesiveness and the coach?s leadership
behavior that senior high school volleyball athletes awared of. All the correlation
coefficients between every dimension of ?Leadership Behavior? and ?Team
Coherence? were significant, and they were positive correlation additionally.
According to this result, the more ?Training and instruction?, ?Care?,
?Democracy?, ?Reward? and ?Autarchy? the coaches behave, the more ?Team
Cohesiveness? will be.
4. In the stepwise regression analysis of coach leadership behavior and the team
cohesiveness, the ?Training and instruction? and ?Care? of the coaches leadership
behavior could effectively predict the ?Team Cohesiveness? of the senior high
III
school volleyball athletes. That indicates that the more ?Training and instruction?
and ?Care? the coaches behave, the more ?Team cohesiveness? will be. |
